Computer Implemented Method for Controlling Energy or Power Utilization of a Battery Pack

A computer system includes a processor device configured to determine vehicle weight of an electric vehicle and altitude data of a predetermined route, determine predictive energy or power utilization of a battery pack of the electric vehicle for the predetermined route including battery pack charging in response to power generation of the battery pack along the predetermined route using a regenerative braking system of the electric vehicle together with the vehicle weight and altitude data, identify a vehicle condition along the predetermined route as belonging to a group of predefined vehicle conditions defined as regenerative limiting, in response of identifying a vehicle condition as regenerative limiting, operate the battery pack within an operating window defined by extended predetermined SOC limits, the extended predetermined SOC limits having at least one of the upper limit and lower limit exceeding the corresponding limit of the default predetermined SOC limits.